Example sentences of "it [modal v] make [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 2 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 3 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 4 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 5 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 6 | ‘ If you grew something like carrots it 'd make some sense . |
| 7 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 8 | However , when teacher appraisal is a firm part of educational reform , it would make better sense if certain aspects of management in initial teacher education could consciously be brought together with the assessment of teacher capacity . |
| 9 | If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland . |
| 10 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 11 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 12 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 13 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 14 | It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five . |
| 15 | It would make some sense for friends of the Ford camp to push the Jaguar shares upwards simply to make a link with GM more difficult . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 17 | If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus . |
| 18 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |
| 19 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 20 | It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry . |
| 21 | It would make more sense economically to bring them home , and would not create any military threat . |
| 22 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 23 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 24 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 25 | It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours . |
| 26 | It would make more sense if it said Tim ran home . |